Well, I have another story to tell and it isn't a pretty one. I'll get right into it.
SO, I was doing a clean of my system. Deleting a lot of old programs and games I forgot I had on there. I was looking for ways I could get more space free on my computer. I remembered I had an old partition set for my Linux Mint OS i never used! (I had another one on my other hard drive). It was only 20GBs and I only used it for trying out Linux Mint. I deleted it and got the space back. I thought nothing of it. I shut down my computer and went to bed (i was 12AM when this happened of Saturday). I woke up that morning and powered on my computer, something was wrong. Instead of booting into Windows 7 it booted into grub rescue mode. I had this happen to me before a long time back and It fixed itself. I had no knowledge of fixing this myself or why it was doing this. I got onto a live usb I had available and looked for ways to fix this. I came across just using syslinux and installing mbr.bin into my drive. I did that, not knowing the implication and I was lost looking so I tried that. Well I booted up and guess what I saw! I saw this beauty of a screen
Alright, I thought. This is okay. My data is still on there it just doesn't have any pointers to read that data. It was okay for now. And I would have wished anything for this screen later on.
I didn't have a Windows 7 boot disc. I thought I could still fix this. I was too impatient to wait for a disc and I wanted it now. So Today I tried fixing it again with the help of rescuetux. A live repair iso. I burned it and opened it up. Me being a retard at this moment, I didn't think of the complications with blindly installing a mbr to my main hard drive. I used the repair windows mbr, selected the disc, and it said alright. I rebooted, and it didn't boot to the screen above, it booted into my live usb. Strange. I unplugged everything and booted up my computer. It gave me a screen saying "SYSTEM DISC NOT FOUND INSERT DISC AND PRESS ENTER".
I was panicking. Now I didn't have any choice but to wait to get a windows install disc. That wasn't all. My main system disc is now gone. It doesn't mount in Linux and is not recognized. Only my factory image does.
I am now typing this from a Linux Mint Live USB on Firefox not knowing what to do with myself. I thought, there is nothing I could do worse to my drives but format them all. I've tried installing Linux Mint but ohhhhh that needs its own Blog Post.
If there is something I can do, it would help.
Thanks,
Vince
SO, I was doing a clean of my system. Deleting a lot of old programs and games I forgot I had on there. I was looking for ways I could get more space free on my computer. I remembered I had an old partition set for my Linux Mint OS i never used! (I had another one on my other hard drive). It was only 20GBs and I only used it for trying out Linux Mint. I deleted it and got the space back. I thought nothing of it. I shut down my computer and went to bed (i was 12AM when this happened of Saturday). I woke up that morning and powered on my computer, something was wrong. Instead of booting into Windows 7 it booted into grub rescue mode. I had this happen to me before a long time back and It fixed itself. I had no knowledge of fixing this myself or why it was doing this. I got onto a live usb I had available and looked for ways to fix this. I came across just using syslinux and installing mbr.bin into my drive. I did that, not knowing the implication and I was lost looking so I tried that. Well I booted up and guess what I saw! I saw this beauty of a screen
I didn't have a Windows 7 boot disc. I thought I could still fix this. I was too impatient to wait for a disc and I wanted it now. So Today I tried fixing it again with the help of rescuetux. A live repair iso. I burned it and opened it up. Me being a retard at this moment, I didn't think of the complications with blindly installing a mbr to my main hard drive. I used the repair windows mbr, selected the disc, and it said alright. I rebooted, and it didn't boot to the screen above, it booted into my live usb. Strange. I unplugged everything and booted up my computer. It gave me a screen saying "SYSTEM DISC NOT FOUND INSERT DISC AND PRESS ENTER".
I was panicking. Now I didn't have any choice but to wait to get a windows install disc. That wasn't all. My main system disc is now gone. It doesn't mount in Linux and is not recognized. Only my factory image does.
I am now typing this from a Linux Mint Live USB on Firefox not knowing what to do with myself. I thought, there is nothing I could do worse to my drives but format them all. I've tried installing Linux Mint but ohhhhh that needs its own Blog Post.
If there is something I can do, it would help.
Thanks,
Vince
